Question 1

Anti-slavery organizations initially used the tactic of promoting a gradual end to slavery by prohibiting it in the western territories but went on to demand immediate abolition everywhere.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 2

Describe the various facets and accomplishments and limitations of the women's movement of the first half of the nineteenth century.

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Question 3

Which Protestant denomination was grounded in biblical fundamentalism and stressed the equality of all before God and had no authority higher than the congregation?

Accepted Answer

A)  Baptist 
B)  Lutheran 
C)  Methodist 
D)  Presbyterian 
E)  Mormon

Question 4

Which of the following statements about Brigham Young is accurate?

Accepted Answer

A)  He rejected Joseph Smith's teachings on plural marriage. 
B)  He completely revised the Book of Mormon and strengthened relations with other Christians. 
C)  He declared war on Joseph Smith's killers and conquered rich territory from them. 
D)  He led the Mormons to Utah and, as territorial governor, defied federal authority. 
E)  His leadership led to a drastic decrease in the size of the Mormon Church.

Question 5

Why might women be drawn to camp meetings?

Accepted Answer

A)  They provided an outlet for women to exhibit their preaching skills. 
B)  They provided women with opportunities to participate as equals in public rituals. 
C)  They were not open to male participation. 
D)  They allowed women to edit the Bible to reflect their own ideals. 
E)  They provided the only avenue of higher education available to women.

Question 6

As a leader of the transcendentalist movement, Ralph Waldo Emerson believed that

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A)  true fulfillment only could be achieved by the gathering of great wealth and material goods. 
B)  one could only find God in the great architecture and literature of the Greeks. 
C)  man had no spirit and pursuing a just life was ultimately pointless. 
D)  God was dead, and the West had entered into an age of atheism. 
E)  self-knowledge opened the doors to self-improvement and self-realization.

Question 7

The American Temperance Union lost many moderate members in 1836 when it

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A)  allowed women to join. 
B)  called for total abstinence from all alcoholic beverages. 
C)  allowed members to drink beer and wine. 
D)  promoted the interests of poor immigrants. 
E)  became too involved in politics.

Question 8

Which of the following writers proved perhaps the most controversial American writer of the nineteenth century, was a political activist, wrote excitedly about industrial development, and
Penned the controversial, free-verse work Leaves of Grass?

Accepted Answer

A)  Edgar Allan Poe 
B)  Emily Dickinson 
C)  Walt Whitman 
D)  Nathaniel Hawthorne 
E)  Ralph Waldo Emerson

Question 9

Most of the utopian communities of the early nineteenth century

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A)  received funding from the government. 
B)  saw their ideas quickly become accepted by the public. 
C)  were established inside major cities. 
D)  quickly became failures. 
E)  flourished in the long term.

Question 10

Which of the following best describes the Transcendental Club, which had its first meeting in the 1830s?

Accepted Answer

A)  a tightly knit group of pro-slavery advocates who insisted that slavery should transcend sectional divisions 
B)  a loosely knit group of diverse, intellectually curious individualists who met to discuss philosophy, religion, and literature 
C)  a radical group of religious scholars who believed in reincarnation and possession 
D)  a conservative group of political leaders who promoted territorial expansion so that the United States would transcend its current boundaries 
E)  a meeting hall outside of Boston where political leaders met to discuss how they might transcend their differences

Question 11

Why did the American Colonization Society acquire the land in West Africa that eventually became the country of Liberia?

Accepted Answer

A)  The Society saw it as a source of new slaves for the American South. 
B)  The Society saw it as a location to build a white nation on the African continent. 
C)  The Society saw it as a place to transport free blacks and freed slaves. 
D)  The Society saw it as a land they could rule over like a kingdom. 
E)  The Society saw it as a valuable source of coal and diamonds.

Question 12

Many prison reformers of the early 1800s, such as those at Auburn, used the penitentiary for

Accepted Answer

A)  group therapy. 
B)  group labor. 
C)  corporal punishment. 
D)  providing prisoners an education. 
E)  patriotic indoctrination.

Question 13

The American Temperance Union often asked that members that took the pledge

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A)  destroy a liquor store in secret. 
B)  sign a T for total abstinence from alcohol beside their names. 
C)  spread the message of Christianity across the South. 
D)  take in immigrants from Ireland. 
E)  become socialists and move to the Oneida Community.

Question 14

The southern state that by 1860 had done the most to advance public education was

Accepted Answer

A)  Virginia. 
B)  Texas. 
C)  Alabama. 
D)  Georgia. 
E)  North Carolina.

Question 15

Attempts to create official African American Methodist congregations largely failed because freed slaves feared discrimination.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 16

Match each description with the item below.
-Sylvester Graham

Accepted Answer

A) was able to devote most of her attention as an unmarried woman to the women's movement and organized the Seneca Falls Convention 
B) was the most successful circuit rider and went on to run for Congress against Abraham Lincoln 
C) gave riveting speeches against slavery, became the first woman officer in the American Anti-Slavery Society, and championed women's rights and temperance 
D) was the founder of the Shakers and was thought to be a prophet and seer to equated cleanliness, hard work, and chastity with saintliness 
E) gathered a group of "Perfectionists" in Vermont, banned private property, and proclaimed a new doctrine called "complex marriage"
F)was a poet who would become a leader of the women's suffrage movement after her oppressive husband's death
G)was a leading but controversial health reformer who promoted a strict diet and discouraged sexual activity
H)advocated for the reform of insane asylums and proved the most important figure in boosting awareness of the plight of the mentally ill
I)was an escaped slave who became a leading anti-slavery advocate, a traveling speaker, and the best-known man of color in America
J)was a former slave who settled in Cleveland, Ohio, and helped runaway slaves cross the border into Canada

Question 17

What were the origins of the major social-reform movements in the early nineteenth century? How did they influence society and politics?

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Question 18

The word "teetotaler" originated with a temperance society's use of the letter "T" to signify total abstinence.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 19

Trace the reforms in prisons and asylums in America. Include the major changes in the treatment of prisoners, the disabled, and dependent children in antebellum America.

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Question 20

Although American literature flourished, newspaper readership declined during the first half of the nineteenth century.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Exam 12: Religion

Anti-slavery organizations initially used the tactic of promoting a gradual end to slavery by prohibiting it in the western territories but went on to demand immediate abolition everywhere.

Describe the various facets and accomplishments and limitations of the women's movement of the first half of the nineteenth century.

Which Protestant denomination was grounded in biblical fundamentalism and stressed the equality of all before God and had no authority higher than the congregation?

Which of the following statements about Brigham Young is accurate?

Why might women be drawn to camp meetings?

As a leader of the transcendentalist movement, Ralph Waldo Emerson believed that

The American Temperance Union lost many moderate members in 1836 when it

Which of the following writers proved perhaps the most controversial American writer of the nineteenth century, was a political activist, wrote excitedly about industrial development, and Penned the controversial, free-verse work Leaves of Grass?

Most of the utopian communities of the early nineteenth century

Which of the following best describes the Transcendental Club, which had its first meeting in the 1830s?

Why did the American Colonization Society acquire the land in West Africa that eventually became the country of Liberia?

Many prison reformers of the early 1800s, such as those at Auburn, used the penitentiary for

The American Temperance Union often asked that members that took the pledge

The southern state that by 1860 had done the most to advance public education was

Attempts to create official African American Methodist congregations largely failed because freed slaves feared discrimination.

Match each description with the item below. -Sylvester Graham

What were the origins of the major social-reform movements in the early nineteenth century? How did they influence society and politics?

The word "teetotaler" originated with a temperance society's use of the letter "T" to signify total abstinence.

Trace the reforms in prisons and asylums in America. Include the major changes in the treatment of prisoners, the disabled, and dependent children in antebellum America.

Although American literature flourished, newspaper readership declined during the first half of the nineteenth century.